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Challenges Of Returning Home

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Veterans face a ton of challenges when returning home. Their difficulties range from nightmares to depression to problems finding employment to inability to adapt to the sudden freedoms of non-military life. Some don’t have any problems at all and make is just fine. Some veterans have a hard time adjusting to civilian life coming from their wartime life. Firstly, some veterans have a hard time reconnecting with family and re-establishing a role in the family and this does not always go smoothly as some people like to think. “Families may have created new routines during absences and both the family and the Veteran will have to adjust to changes.” Reports have stated, being married while serving reduces the chances of an easy re-entry from

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